Quotes About Mindfulness

If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.

Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.

Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!